The 1992 novel Abyss popularized a clandestine version of this project, whose common name “D6” may instead refer to an air filtration station. British architect Charles Holden’s advice on this project ultimately inspired his own modernist design for a structure at Gants Hill in London. A slogan that “the whole country is building” helped achieve the challenging directive that this project embody the concept of svet, or “light.” Politics in the (*) 1950s made this project switch to a cheap “centipede” design with two rows of identical columns. A mosaic cycle depicting the sky over 24 hours is a highlight of a spacious art-deco structure in this project that was dubbed a “palace of the people.” For 10 points, a young Nikita Khrushchev oversaw the opening of what project, whose first phase connected Sokolniki and Gorky Park? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 8% | 33% | 119.42 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 22 | 15 |
| Michael Coates | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 70 | -5 |
| Connor Mayers | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 106 | -5 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 106 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 114 | -5 |
| Rob Carson | BHSU X | The RAND Coöperation | 114 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | It's not X, but... defenders | 122 | 10 |
| Jaimie Carlson | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Do re mi fa serving negs | 124 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Floridovician | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 126 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Broken Socal Scene | 132 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 132 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 135 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Big is moving to Evanston! | 136 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 136 | 10 |
| Iain Carpenter | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 136 | 10 |
| Kai Smith | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 136 | 10 |